At the event, the company unveiled its "GE Garages, " pop-up labs focused on advanced manufacturing technologies.
Bring together these new robots with innovative manufacturing technologies, and you could get a manufacturing renaissance.
The U.S. has always been a leader in developing advanced manufacturing technologies and that is indeed the right bet to place.
The Sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies (Semta) has warned car manufacturers faced a skills gap as existing engineers retire.
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Without a substantial existing manufacturing base, the best American inventors can hope for is to earn decent royalties from foreign licensees of American manufacturing technologies.
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But newer manufacturing technologies, combined with a demand for low-cost chips to serve the high-volume consumer electronics market, have spurred chip makers to seek new ways to design their products.
In a similar cost-cutting move, in January AMD announced that it would jointly develop semiconductor manufacturing technologies for 65-nanometer and 45-nanometer chips with IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ).
While key manufacturing technologies might be protected, it would be foolish to believe that this arrangement will not give rise to significant compromises in a number of areas of satellite technology in which the United States currently predominates.
The group will also support growing businesses to achieve their goals and will also work to establish new businesses in manufacturing, advanced technologies and the green economy.
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We have complex technologies and manufacturing procedures, multi-stream product discovery and development processes, intricate partnerships with suppliers and customers.
Achieving the goals of this historic program will rely on innovative technologies and manufacturing that will spur economic growth and create high-quality domestic jobs in cutting-edge industries across the country.
In practice, it is predictable that the result of this policy will be that manufacturing jobs associated with presently controlled technologies will move offshore, where production can take place at lower cost.
Where regeneration is taking place it is usually in the form or hotels and housing rather than pioneering new technologies or wealth-creating manufacturing businesses.
Thus, in order to take advantage of this growth, United Technologies has opened a new manufacturing facility for Otis elevators in Chongqing in southwestern China.
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While IP-based public safety gateways are still somewhat new and law enforcement tends to be conservative adopting unproven technologies, officials from companies manufacturing the products say initial responses have been positive.
Much of the money was diverted to northern England, regenerating a region that had been long dependent on old fashioned manufacturing industries as a hub for new technologies and computing in a process known as the Big Bang.
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Electrowetting supposedly provides better brightness and response time than competing reflective display technologies while using essentially the same manufacturing techniques, and according to a handy comparison chart on MobileRead, is just about the best thing ever.
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Esterline Technologies Corporation is a specialized engineering and manufacturing company principally serving aerospace and defense markets.
A.I. technologies are also finding their way into manufacturing and are powering robots such as Baxter.
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The Internet and its related technologies have made the process of outsourcing manufacturing so efficient that the effects on American jobs have overwhelmed the jiu-jitsu economic process of turning a negative thrust into a positive outcome.
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Most manufacturing methods are based on bulk optical assembly using multiple technologies that require different assembly steps and expertise.
Fourth, we should seize the opportunities of advanced manufacturing to help change the cost equation for new energy technologies.
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The combination of FDM 3D printing and printed electronics technologies can provide benefits over traditional prototyping, manufacturing and field repair processes.
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Avgago Technologies and Maxim Semiconductor also do much of their manufacturing in the United States.
"All this money has been spent to develop efficient technologies, both on the engineering and on the manufacturing side, " says Mr Yamanouchi.
Morris Technologies, an Ohio firm that specializes in additive manufacturing and is the largest deployer of DMLS in the world, did the job.
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The investment will allow the base to make the latest system-on-chip designs in which various technologies are integrated onto the same circuit, helping minimise manufacturing costs.
He was visiting an advanced battery manufacturing plant in Holland, MI to highlight the key role that innovative technologies will play in the future of the U.S. auto industry.
In some manufacturing sectors, South-East Asia was able to leap-frog into new technologies because it could attract foreign investment.
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